I want to go a level up on your meta here and say that I think that this season's turn toward comparing Charlie and Larry (with Larry placed in the "That could be you if you don't wise up" position) has a lot to do with TPTB's insecurity about setting up the protagonist as a professor of mathematics and, more than that, a genius.
::breathes sigh of relief:: I kept thinking about this tonight away from the computer and I realized I think this is why it bothers me at all, that the more I thought about it the more it seemed like the whole math geek vs. romance thing was beginning to seem far more of an obsession with the show than it had to be. Sometimes I feel like they figure it's a good way to warm the audience up to the genius idea--it's a Faustian bargain. You get all these brains, but, are always in danger of being a sort of Frankenstein's monster.
And in a way, the situation just makes it worse. Like I said above, I always think it's just funny when Alan complains about Charlie living like a kid when he lives with him, thus keeping him in exactly the same living situation he had as a kid. Charlie is often treated as a child--and I don't know...maybe that's the way they feel they can blunt the intellectual stuff? So he's forever the special child?
That's another reason it always seems so odd to compare him to Larry as if he could turn into him--they just seem like such fundamentally different people with different backgrounds and attitudes about the work and the world.
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::breathes sigh of relief:: I kept thinking about this tonight away from the computer and I realized I think this is why it bothers me at all, that the more I thought about it the more it seemed like the whole math geek vs. romance thing was beginning to seem far more of an obsession with the show than it had to be. Sometimes I feel like they figure it's a good way to warm the audience up to the genius idea--it's a Faustian bargain. You get all these brains, but, are always in danger of being a sort of Frankenstein's monster.
And in a way, the situation just makes it worse. Like I said above, I always think it's just funny when Alan complains about Charlie living like a kid when he lives with him, thus keeping him in exactly the same living situation he had as a kid. Charlie is often treated as a child--and I don't know...maybe that's the way they feel they can blunt the intellectual stuff? So he's forever the special child?
That's another reason it always seems so odd to compare him to Larry as if he could turn into him--they just seem like such fundamentally different people with different backgrounds and attitudes about the work and the world.